Généalogie John Muijsers » William "(de eenvoudige)" van Sully (± 1085-± 1150)

Données personnelles William "(de eenvoudige)" van Sully 

• Le surnom est (de eenvoudige).
• Il est né environ 1085.
• Profession: graf van Blois en Chartres.
• Il est décédé environ 1150.
• Un enfant de Stefanus Ii van Blois et Adela van Engeland

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Notes par William "(de eenvoudige)" van Sully

William, Count of Sully, also known as William the Simple (c. 1085 – c. 1150) was Count of Blois and Count of Chartres from 1102 to 1107, and jure uxoris Count of Sully. William was the eldest son of Stephen-Henry, Count of Blois and Adela of Normandy, daughter of William the Conqueror. He was the older brother of Theobald II, Count of Champagne, King Stephen of England and Henry, Bishop of Winchester.

In the absence of male issue to Henry I, William was the eldest legitimate male heir of the line of William the Conqueror. He would thus have been the principal rival to Henry's daughter Matilda to inherit the throne after Henry's death. However, he was not considered as a candidate for the English crown. Several historians have taken the view that he was passed over because of mental deficiency; hence his soubriquet "William the Simple". Though widely argued, this has never been clearly substantiated.

William was at first groomed to inherit the comital throne as Count of Blois and Chartres, and was designated count shortly before his father's departure on his second crusade in 1102.[1] However he was soon removed from wide ranging comital duties by his mother, because of his erratic behaviour. He once assaulted and threatened to kill the Bishop of Chartres over a jurisdictional dispute. So, when her second son Theobald came of age, around 1107, Adela elevated him to the position of count of Blois-Chartres,[2] and forced William to retire to his wife's lands in Sully.

In 1104, William married Agnes of Sully, the heiress to the lordship of Sully-sur-Loire,[3] a woman of admirable beauty attached to the court of William's mother. The marriage of William and Agnes was a happy one and several children were born.

Their children included:

Raoul de Blois de Sully, Abbé de Cluny (Abbaye) 1102-1176
Margaret (c. 1105–1145). She married Henry, Count of Eu, Lord of Hastings, about 1122
John, Count of Eu and Lord of Hastings (1130-26 June 1170), married Alice d’Aubigny (Calvados), Lady of Smergate, had issue.
Béatrice d’Eu
Mahaut d'Eu
Etienne d'Eu
Henry de Sully, Abbot of Fécamp (died 1189)
Rudolph de Blois de Sully (1104-1176)
Elisabeth de Blois, Abbesse de Caen (1105-1128)
Eudes-Archambaud III de Champagne de Sully, Sire of Sully

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